Man’s sovereign power, emphasized particularly by the theologians of the school of Antioch in their interpretation of the meaning of “image,” gives him according to Palamas another great endowment which not even the angels possess.17 As Kern observes at length, the angels are servant spirits—ministers or functionaries—not only of God but of man as well.18 The conception of man as a microcosm and as the meeting-point of creation—a conception which concurs with ancient Greek thought and with many Church